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Louwrentius
IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good. Context If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson? undefined
3 months ago
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
a year ago
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A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
The Honest Broker
Twelve Brutal Truths about AI Music Ignore the hype—here's what the bots will really do to our songs
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Bluesky is good Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for...
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Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for the dubious title of "Twitter's successor" and landed on Bluesky as being my favorite, perhaps less out of its ostensible inherent virtues and more out of the size of its...
David Perell
The Microwave Economy America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world...
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America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world cheaper instead of more beautiful, more functional instead of more meaningful. The post The Microwave Economy appeared first on David Perell.
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 25 Thought Bananas is now Castles in the Sky
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
How to know when it's time to go Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time....
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Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the next step in your career.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Let’s Talk About Obesity Drugs | Out-Of-Pocket we're entering a new era for these treatments
a year ago
Old Structures...
The Story Can Be Oversimplified The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective...
a year ago
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The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective on an emotional level, and are easier to tell. So we often tell them. For example, Wikipedia (my go-to source for oversimplified explanations) states that the 1916 New York zoning...
Engineers Need Art
Move Fast and Abandon Things For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside...
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For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside and abandoned.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
yesterday
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yesterday
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Clinic Buildouts | Out-Of-Pocket Has software changed what's necessary in the clinic?
a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
How to organize content
8 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
a month ago
Stephen Diehl
The Twilight of the Securities Act
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a> The other day I was trying to write...
a year ago
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tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a> The other day I was trying to write some HTML to give the user the ability to reload the document in its exact state by clicking on a link (same functionality as if they hit CMD + R on their keyboard, or clicked...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Movement But Glaciation' There’s an art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the reviewer...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s an art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the reviewer prizes the author’s earlier work. How to juggle critical rigor, honesty and tact? Turner Cassity, writing about Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Amaranth (1934), does it with confident...
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Singapore’s gig workers worry new benefits could mean lower pay A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some...
4 months ago
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A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some workers fears the higher costs will be passed on to them.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started December 15, 2023.
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Unbundling AI ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to...
a year ago
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a year ago
ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do we unbundle them back into single-purpose software?
Retail Design Blog
Pacific Companies Offices by Hendy Hendy designed a new office space for Pacific Companies in Irvine, emphasizing comfort and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Hendy designed a new office space for Pacific Companies in Irvine, emphasizing comfort and flexibility, creating a home-like environment with...
NeuroLogica Blog
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low For decades scientists were confused by Antarctic sea ice. Climate models predict that it should be...
8 months ago
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For decades scientists were confused by Antarctic sea ice. Climate models predict that it should be decreasing, and yet it has been steadily and slowly increasing. It also made for a great talking point for climate change deniers – superficially it seems like counter evidence to...
The American Scholar
Set in Seclusion The post Set in Seclusion appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef. Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Work-n-travel: A practical guide for staying productive while exploring the world. ...
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Adelie, released a program to create slideshows. GrimGrains,...
Math Is Still...
What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years...
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When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions and how they interact with each other. The post What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Baby VS Intimacy A comic about intimate moments. View on my website
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how...
11 months ago
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Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist, a reliquary of the violent collisions that forged our rocky planet lush with life...
tomcritchlow.com
Notes on Search and AI What to say about the future of AI and search?
a year ago
Math Is Still...
What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet...
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Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle. The post What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears undefined
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Crispin at Studio Voltaire, Clapham Common Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start),...
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Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start), Crispin at Studio Voltaire is a lovely space to eat in. The candles on each table aren't the only source of light, but provide a romantic accessory to the tealights dangling above...
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 4 After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in...
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After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in Queens. Despite the modern use of a numbered street system, Queens has street naming that drives outsiders mad, so it is fitting that three of the four old ballparks in the borough...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}. Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu. Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire undefined
a year ago
Ben Borgers
Automatic Dark Mode Colors Don’t Work
over a year ago
diamond geezer
A quiz Mystery quiz Suggestions and answers in the comments box please. one suggestion and one guess each,...
a year ago
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Mystery quiz Suggestions and answers in the comments box please. one suggestion and one guess each, thanks.   1) aftermaths 2) arrow 3) banter 4) braindamaged 5) cheering 6) commensuration 7) condor 8) dance 9) eely 10) embryo 11) feline   12) genial 13) hamlet 14) hearing 15)...
Probably...
Data Q&A Today I’m starting a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with...
9 months ago
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Today I’m starting a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. In each installment, I’ll take a question from Reddit’s statistics forum and answer it, using Python code to demonstrate. The first installment is a question about the...
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky undefined
a year ago
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Martyr! book jacket Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved. Martyr! is a...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved. Martyr! is a novel by Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar that combines modern situations with traditional imagery. For the jacket, prolific cover designer Linda Huang did what she does so...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Are many useStates better than useState(object)? Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every...
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Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every time — why do I feel like splitting the old class state into so many useState(atom) — one for each state key? Is there any real benefit in it? Should I just leave a single...
Common Edge
Why Mass Transit in America Disappeared A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric...
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A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight.
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
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a year ago
“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
Retail Design Blog
Lotte Cinema Suwon: A Creative Cinema Hub Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with color-changing lights and patterned glass, setting a...
Noahpinion
EVs are just going to win Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
Avoid unnecessary amplifiers This is extremely unique vs This is unique I’m very upset vs I’m upset and I love you a ton vs I...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is extremely unique vs This is unique I’m very upset vs I’m upset and I love you a ton vs I love you Sometimes, more words aren’t better.
Seth's Blog
The opposite of insubordination “Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to the letter, you’re insubordinate. Not subordinate. Complete subordination might have been the goal in an industrial setting. But now, it’s dangerous, expensive and inefficent....
The Modern House
Designer Sue Minter’s colourful country house in the Cotswolds
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'What Will Become of My Diary?' “During the morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and Poland...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
“During the morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and Poland and indirectly between Germany and Poland’s allies, England and France. This war will indeed bring destruction upon human civilization which merits annihilation and destruction....
The Modern House
Luke Edward Hall: the artist and designer pulls back the curtain to reveal his colourful life story A boundless creative with a uniquely romantic, rainbow-hued aesthetic, Luke Edward Hall has...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A boundless creative with a uniquely romantic, rainbow-hued aesthetic, Luke Edward Hall has reinvigorated our appetite for English Country House Style – and embroidered velvet slippers. For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd gets the invitation we’ve all been waiting...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mickey Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The comics have actually been written by Steamboat...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The comics have actually been written by Steamboat Willie for the last 12 years. Today's News:
computers are bad
2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
a year ago
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a year ago
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Airline Stopover Programs
a year ago
Map of the Week
Mauna Loa Lava Maps Sure, there are cool livestreams of the Mauna Loa volcano you can watch, but even better, you can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sure, there are cool livestreams of the Mauna Loa volcano you can watch, but even better, you can see live maps of the lava flow. Here is yesterday's status map from the U.S. Geological Survey The dark red in these maps shows the new lava flow from the last 24 hours. It is...
somethingaboutmaps
Getting Local: A Map Disassembly Though it’s only been a couple of months since the last time I did a map breakdown, I feel like it’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Though it’s only been a couple of months since the last time I did a map breakdown, I feel like it’s time for another. While my own instincts are to avoid repetition, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from my YouTube-watching habits, it’s that a creator can put out a regular...
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better. And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
4 months ago
The Rational Walk
Roth IRA Conversions For Early Retirees Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and...
3 months ago
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Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and avoid falling into a high tax bracket.
the singularity is...
A Really Big Computer GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS...
a year ago
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GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS (20e15) of compute, GPT-4 used 47.5 person-years to train. Very human scale. I want to build a computer capable of training GPT-4 in a day. I need 3e25/86400 = 347,000,000 TFLOPS, or...
xkcd.com
Sky Alarm
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
"No Code" Is A Lie _Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
over a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The College Health Opportunity | Out-Of-Pocket We can make college healthcare better! And honestly we have to
a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986 From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
a year ago
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a year ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the  club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Laetitia@Work
Future of Work: 12 books I read in 2022 Laetitia@Work #54
over a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The White Horse, Churton Churton is not a place you're supposed to have heard of, so don't feel bad if you haven't. Unlike...
a year ago
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Churton is not a place you're supposed to have heard of, so don't feel bad if you haven't. Unlike its larger, and lets face it more attractive, neighbour Farndon with its pretty medieval half-timbered cottages and 14th century church tower, or Tattenhall to the east, another...
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 365 | China’s Decline, MicrosoftAI, Creativity Ratio… 🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS NYC Surveillance Amnesty International has revealed new research showing that the NYPD has over 15,000 cameras that can do...
Max Rozen
Automatically testing for accessibility (a11y) issues with jest-axe Automatically test your code for accessibility issues in the same way you catch bugs with jest-axe.
over a year ago
Farnam Street
Why Write Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an...
a year ago
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Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking-points? While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing....
TheCollector
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii undefined
5 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
Rest of World -...
Sam Altman’s India comments spark a heated backlash The OpenAI CEO’s dismissal of an Indian competitor launched a debate over the country’s tech...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The List of N Things
over a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
40 Maltby Street, Bermondsey 40 Maltby Street sits alongside places like Quality Chop House and the French House in that special...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
40 Maltby Street sits alongside places like Quality Chop House and the French House in that special category of restaurants used as a kind of shorthand amongst food-obsessed types in order to prove they know what they're talking about. Like Quality Chop House and the French...
Chris Grossack's...
Talk - Where Are The Open Sets? I was invited to give a talk at HoTTEST 2022, and was more than happy to accept! Ever since I was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was invited to give a talk at HoTTEST 2022, and was more than happy to accept! Ever since I was first learning HoTT I was curious how we could be sure that theorems in HoTT give us corresponding theorems in “classical” homotopy theory. Earlier this summer I spent a lot of...
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0 It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has...
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over a year ago
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and, as of today, it is jsDelivr's 73rd most popular project. And that was just the beta version. Today, I'm happy to announce that...
The Map is Mostly...
Designing a New Old Home: Defining Constraints Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came to buy land Curiosity — Advice on starting Research, Sketch, Collect — Essential research for home design Defining Constraints ← You are here The Elements
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Arts Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I worry that with humanities departments being...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I worry that with humanities departments being gutted we are no longer creating the necessary levels of narcissism to preserve civil society. Today's News: It's launch day!!!
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
a year ago
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a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
ntietz.com blog
That time I wrote malware and got caught Most of us make some bad decisions in high school. While other people were drinking, going to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school. While other people were drinking, going to parties, and who knows what else, I was doing some experimentation of my own. I was writing my first (and only) piece of malware. From as early as I can remember, I've had a fascination...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography. Berkeley Mono Font Variants Quick update on people asking what's the...
TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC undefined
11 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Crafting Connection: A Contemporary Addition to a Historic Bungalow Carter Williamson Architects has shared photos of a new home extension that they designed for an...
8 months ago
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Carter Williamson Architects has shared photos of a new home extension that they designed for an Australian house in a heritage conservation area. The designers’ brief asked for an open, warm home in which a family could truly gather, one that respected the home’s history while...
The American Scholar
Ideology as Anatomy How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Trusting third parties with our information Photo by Sergiu Nista on Unsplash We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here at our startup in the past...
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Photo by Sergiu Nista on Unsplash We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here at our startup in the past 12 months or so. We’ve been growing and adding new team members, and almost without fail, almost all our new starters are getting hit with a scam email within a few days of...
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review ‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review JamesHoare Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
Diaries of Note
The Boy Jones In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for...
a year ago
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In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for three years had been fascinating Londoners. Known to most as ‘The Boy Jones,’ Edward Jones was a teenager who had repeatedly managed to break into Buckingham Palace, and on three...
Maps Mania
Out of Africa - The Story of Human Migration
7 months ago
TheCollector
Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know undefined
7 months ago
Max Rozen
How the React Hooks ESLint plugin saved me hours debugging useEffect useEffect is great for fetching and rendering data, but are you using it correctly? There's an...
over a year ago
The Elysian
Deep-research an article with me A six-week workshop for writers.
a week ago
The American Scholar
The Writer in the Family The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero The post The Writer in the Family appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Ruffian
The State of the Culture Is...Not Bad, Actually Reflections on a good year for the Oscars
10 months ago
Louwrentius
FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS) To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of...
over a year ago
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To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was...
Jonas Hietala
Up like a Sun, Down like a Pancake I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But it just don’t feel right to me. I’m not prepared, I feel a little bit stressed and I don’t really have faith in my game so I’m gonna step down this one as well. But it’s fine, Ludum...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
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This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Of all things, I have an anecdote – from a friend in Washington, D.C. He was visiting Second Story Books in that city earlier this week. The volumes in the outdoor stalls are priced at $4 each. My friend collects Lionel Trilling and he found a copy of Of This Time, Of That Place...
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It looks like this: Which do we measure the most, spend the most obtaining and argue about most often? We might have it backwards. HT Russ Ackoff.
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Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
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When I started at thoughtbot a year and a half ago, my first project was given to me within an hour of getting my laptop’s dev environment set up. We kicked off a green field project for a non-profit in the education space. They wanted to raise funds digitally for public schools....
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Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19. I hope that society views this as a warning for the future.  Covid-19 is bad, but only a warm-up.  I think it’s...
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Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were another handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This still isn’t that: More Design Paths HERE
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A pet peeve of more than one of us at Old Structures is seeing buildings that are “faking” something that makes no sense. Examples abound, like weep holes in solid masonry walls. I noticed this building while on the train recently, with the star anchors that one often sees on...
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A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed by risks that don’t exist and greatly exaggerate them where they do, preventing them from being one of the best. Consider this lightly edited excerpt from a conversation between...
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Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a setjmp which is fun in a more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
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An exhibition of tube maps, dozens and dozens of them, is pretty much nirvana for some people. If this is you be sure to make a pilgrimage to The Map House (nearest station Knightsbridge) before the end of the month. Look for the gold tube map in the window, just round the corner...
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What technology’s drive for seamlessness gets wrong. I’ve been thinking lately about friction — not the physical force, but the small resistances we encounter in daily life. The tech industry has made eliminating friction its north star, pursuing ever more seamless...
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They’re everywhere we look. Here are a few thoughts on the ones that won’t go away: First, is it a problem or a situation? Problems, by definition, have solutions. You might not like the cost of the solution, the trade-offs it leads to, or the time and effort it takes, but...
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There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way around social media this week. While the author is correct in his statement that operating system buttons don't have hand cursors, the pattern has become ubiquitous and somewhat...
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We’re very excited to have announced the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that can allow for...
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More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
Seth's Blog
It’s simple (it’s complicated) It’s simple: This surgery will fix your problem and you’ll be better. It’s complicated: Changes in...
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It’s simple: This surgery will fix your problem and you’ll be better. It’s complicated: Changes in lifestyle, diet and attitude will, over time, help you feel better. Or… Our enemies are bad, and we’re good. Vote for me. The world is a big place that is filled with nuance,...
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2023-11-25 the curse of docker I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza...
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I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza there could be. In that spirit, I thought I would write something quick and oddly professional: I'm going to complain about Docker. Packaging software is one of those fundamental...
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Is autocapture ‘still’ bad? Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a...
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Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a blogpost by Product Evangelist Adam Greco. Yes, he…
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Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial intelligence program to generate bogus legal citations in his motion for early termination of his supervised release. Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for...
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Stoics should be vegetarian Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy...
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Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his landmark Animal Liberation, published back in 1975. In truth, utilitarians have been very clear on the subject from the beginning. The...
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That’s the first question. The second question is, “how do we make it work better?” These two questions, patiently repeated, lead to incremental improvement and an understanding of reality. The opposite approach is, “because I said so.” Reality might not care what you want.
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First and last quiz First and last quiz All answers now in the comments box. chemical element 1) Ac 2) Be 3) Ce 4)...
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First and last quiz All answers now in the comments box. chemical element 1) Ac 2) Be 3) Ce 4) Cn 5) Cr 6) Fe 7) Gd 8) In 9) Sn  tube station 10) At 11) Ct 12) Fd 13) Hr 14) Ld 15) Mn 16) Ne 17) Rr 18) St 19) Tk 20) Ww   UK city 21) Ah 22) Bt 23) Cd 24) Dr 25) Ld 26) Nt 27)...
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Accurate contrarian theories When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than...
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When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than its competitors’. Many people attribute…
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Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
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Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
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A Primer Worth Reading For people who don’t work on facades in New York, “Here’s why NYC sidewalks are (still) covered with...
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For people who don’t work on facades in New York, “Here’s why NYC sidewalks are (still) covered with 400 miles of scaffolding” by David Brand is worth a look. It’s a good introduction to the tangled issues around sidewalk sheds. A very short summary: the response, for decades, to...
Open Culture
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A heads up on a deal: Between today and June 23, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one all-inclusive...
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Transport Freedom I love my Travelcard because it allows me to take multiple journeys anywhere I like whenever I like....
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I love my Travelcard because it allows me to take multiple journeys anywhere I like whenever I like. For a one-off fee I can roam on all TfL modes of transport in my chosen zones. I can go to Woolwich, then West Ealing, then Wood Green if I so choose. I can change my mind mid...
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Uncovering the Historical Origins of Stoicism . Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern...
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. Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern understanding of Stoicism is associated with the Roman Empire, its roots can be traced back to Ancient Greece. This article will explore the historical origins of Stoicism, its core...
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In the forward-looking spirit of the New Year, it might be fun to get readers’ opinions of their favorite science fiction inventions.  I wrote about favorite sci-fi materials back in 2015, but let’s broaden the field. Personally, I’m a fan of the farcaster (spoiler warning!) from...
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A Curved Accent Wall Wraps Around From The Fireplace To The Ceiling Inside This Home MAKHNO Studio has designed a home in Kiev, Ukraine, that includes a contemporary living room with a...
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MAKHNO Studio has designed a home in Kiev, Ukraine, that includes a contemporary living room with a large curved statement piece. The living room has a sunken couch that neatly fits into the step-down, and faces the fireplace, while the focal point of the room is a curved section...
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Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the...
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The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the smartest acquisitions in tech when they bought DeepMind in 2014. They helped set the course for the modern AI movement with the Transformer paper in 2017. They were poised to be right...
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Parque Nacional Calilegua Parque Nacional Calilegua protects around 76,000 hectares of east-slope yungas forest, making it the...
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Parque Nacional Calilegua protects around 76,000 hectares of east-slope yungas forest, making it the largest national park in northwestern Argentina. It would, therefore, feature prominently on our trip. Laura and I arrived in the general area during the afternoon of January 25,...
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Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127. On the RGB parade scope, the card is a perfect plateau at 50%. Now imagine increasing the exposure of this scene by one stop. “Stops” of light are an exponential scale, meaning that subtracting one stop is...
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On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today, with over $600M in loans originated this year across MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX. On-chain lending has the potential to disrupt traditional secured lending. But it seems it may do more...
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NAKO Design has designed a home in Edmonton, Canada, that’s influenced by both Japandi and Australian design styles. With a modern palette of black and white warmed with soft silver elm wood accents and texture, the home shows sophistication with a continuity of texture and tone...
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Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In the previous installment on store-and-forward backups, I mentioned how easy it is to do with ZFS, and some of the tools that can be used to do it without ZFS. A lot of those...
Damn Interesting
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As is often the case with people in dangerous professions, the Apollo astronauts found that life insurance policies were prohibitively expensive. Rather than pay the exorbitant insurance fees, the astronauts devised a system to ensure their wives and children would be financially...
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The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
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The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In 2015, an unusual incident...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In 2015, an unusual incident happened on the construction site for a sewage lift station in British Columbia, Canada. WorksafeBC, the provincial health and safety agency, posted a summary of the event on...
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50 So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person...
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So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person familiar with electronics fears. The smell of some electrical component burning. The whole upper floor smelled like something was smoldering. So I shut down both my storage servers....
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It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be time, though it's not exactly glamorous or exciting.  There are certain cycles in research universities, and two interrelated ones are the cycle of departmental strategic planning and...
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The central question of development economics is simple: how can poor countries become rich? The answer is neither small-scale, targeted interventions nor broad generalizations about growth. Instead, we should focus on firms.
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